When Your New Phone Number Belonged to a Hasidic Hairdresser Named Zelda

Photo courtesy of Alyssa Bereznak, who, full disclosure, is my friend.

So! Brooklyn Heights resident, Yahoo News national correspondent and prominent neighborhood podcaster Alyssa Bereznak got a new work phone earlier this November with a 646 area code.

Pretty standard stuff. That is, until the phone number started being haunted by clients of its former owner — apparently a Hasidic hairdresser named Zelda, presumably a resident of Orthodox Jewish Brooklyn and clearly a woman with a knack for her craft.

Bereznak’s phone has been visited, so far, by four of Zelda’s clients, two of whom have Brooklyn area codes.

Below, courtesy of the phone’s new owner, a peek into the world of a Hasidic hairdresser named Zelda. (The proud mother, we learn, of a newborn ”tzaddikle.”)

To keep up with the adventures of Zelda’s former phone, follow Bereznak on Twitter or tune into BKHeightsCast, on which Texts For Zelda is sure to become a regular theme.

And if anyone is acquainted with this Hasidic hair queen IRL, by all means, reach out: simone.wilson@patch.com.